How to Train Your Dragon 2(2014)give me hope, thrill me, transport me · From Peter Hartlaub at San Francisco Chronicle: It is by far the sharpest-looking DreamWorks Animation film to date. |
Interstellar(2014)inspire me, stretch my mind, transport me · From Claudia Puig at USA Today: While it reaches for the stars, director Christopher Nolan’s Interstellar is a flawed masterpiece…The story is ever-ambitious, sometimes riveting and thought-provoking, but also plodding and hokey and not as visionary as its cutting-edge special effects. |
MasterChef Junior(2014)From Jeff Jensen at EW: MasterChef Junior exults in the joy of cooking, the joy of childhood, and the joy of treating people decently. |
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Masters of Sex(2014)enlighten me, grip me, take me back · From Andy Greenwald at Grantland: [It] remains the rare show willing to dissect the stodgy constructs of polite society… It proves that the world as we know it doesn’t need to end to inspire moments of beauty and horror. It just needs to be undressed a little.wonderfully nuanced performances.
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Mr. Turner(2014)inspire me, make me laugh, transport me · From Dana Stevens at Slate: Mr. Turner does resemble Topsy-Turvy in its meticulous yet vibrant recreation of the past and its ever-expanding thematic amplitude. This is a movie not only about one particular artist, but about art as both a field of human endeavor and an object of shifting cultural and economic value. |